Am I a heartless douchebag

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Thaius said:
Well there's a difference between not caring and not helping. Personally, I care, even if I can't really offer my help. It sucks that people are in situations like that, and it's much, much worse when you consider the amount of sex slavery and such going on in those situations. I don't understand how you could just not give a crap about that. Though I suppose the predominant worldview now is that we're all just animals with random, pointless origins, and we may as well only care about our own well-being and enjoyment because human life has no value anyway.

And people say religion causes societal problems...
And maybe you're sitting at your keyboard thinking about the Earth's desperate need to stop the cruel product testing on animals destroying the ozone, but probably, you aren't.

All life is utterly meaningless and leads to the same end, death. So, enjoy your life while you are here. Raise some hell, get in some fights, but don't worry about people who are just as worthless as you.
 

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Monkeyman8 said:
Thaius said:
Though I suppose the predominant worldview now is that we're all just animals with random, pointless origins, and we may as well only care about our own well-being and enjoyment because human life has no value anyway.
Either find me a single person that believes that on this forum, or apologize for being so fucking ignorant.

OP: yeah, a bit, you're kinda part of the problem.
No. I'll believe that. Thats why I think we should not have any form of government to begin with. Cause I think that we really should care about ourselves. Also we are just nothing more than animals who have evolved.
 

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bak00777 said:
My university is made me read this book about some guy who built schools in the middle east, and they are making me go to these lecture/seminar things about third world countries and children my age that live there and their hardships etc. I just got back from one, and i feel like i wasted an hour and a half of my life. I honestly don't care. I care about me and the people directly around me, not someone i have never met halfway around the world. So i ask you fellow escapists, am i a total heartless douche for not caring?
Not exactly. It's the sad truth that no one chooses the life they're born into, unfortunatly some just draw the short straw. You shouldn't feel bad that you didn't.
 

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Yes.

I believe I should make it known that I am only saying this based on the tittle and have no earthly Idea what this guy is talking about.

Edit: I have now read what he said and say that he is not a heartless douchebag for that. However, he is most likely a heartless douchebag for something else he has done.
 
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Railgun88 said:
Monkeyman8 said:
Thaius said:
Though I suppose the predominant worldview now is that we're all just animals with random, pointless origins, and we may as well only care about our own well-being and enjoyment because human life has no value anyway.
Either find me a single person that believes that on this forum, or apologize for being so fucking ignorant.

OP: yeah, a bit, you're kinda part of the problem.
No. I'll believe that. Thats why I think we should not have any form of government to begin with. Cause I think that we really should care about ourselves. Also we are just nothing more than animals who have evolved.
I say, let everything evolve, and let the chips fall where they may.
 

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Railgun88 said:
Monkeyman8 said:
Thaius said:
Though I suppose the predominant worldview now is that we're all just animals with random, pointless origins, and we may as well only care about our own well-being and enjoyment because human life has no value anyway.
Either find me a single person that believes that on this forum, or apologize for being so fucking ignorant.

OP: yeah, a bit, you're kinda part of the problem.
No. I'll believe that. Thats why I think we should not have any form of government to begin with. Cause I think that we really should care about ourselves. Also we are just nothing more than animals who have evolved.
Be careful not to spill that kashi you got from the anarcho-syndicalist all-vegan co-op, Running Star.
 

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Tbh no inteteresting. I put my money in the charity bucket when I go shopping because I have and they dont but thats the most in thought I give it. I dropped Human geography as fast as possibly because its boring as sin.
 

thethingthatlurks

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Ok little children, it's story time!
I took a sociology course (globalization) over the summer (as obtaining a BS in applied math requires me to take junior and senior level courses OUTSIDE OF FUCKIN' SCIENCE), where my professor tried to instill the following world view: The IMF (that's the International Monetary Fund), and the World Bank make every country in which they operate worse off, there is a drive to shut out the voices of the protesters opposed to a sort of corporate world government, and organic food is the way to go. It took me about 5 minutes to figure out that a) she was batshit fucking loco, and b) whether I cared or not, I wouldn't be able to make a difference.
So no, you're not a heartless douchebag, just a plain normal human. Whoever says they care is usually lying, unless they actually spend thousands of hours every year physically helping people.
 

hurfdurp

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Nah. Can't expect to be moved by everything that occurs at your school. Ohhhh math lecture uhhuhuhuh.
 

thefragboxed

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you aren't a heartless douche for not caring about someone you have no personal relationship with who lives thousands of miles away in a society that (probably) differs greatly from your own.
i would duly note their plight, remember that you are relatively fortunate(but don't feel guilty for it) and gut through the rest of the class.

bak00777 said:
I want to be either a corporate Lawyer or a Lawyer
this on the other hand... may make you a heartless douchebag
 

geekRAGE

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Third world countries would be a lot better off if they would quit having so many kids. They can't feed themselves so having kids is just plain stupid. They have all those problems because of overpopulation.
 

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bak00777 said:
I want to be either a corperate Lawyer or a Lawyer who works with intellectual properties like patents and copyrights, not deal with the third world.
You know where your vested interests are and they aren't here. I see no issue.
 

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geekRAGE said:
Third world countries would be a lot better off if they would quit having so many kids. They can't feed themselves so having kids is just plain stupid. They have all those problems because of overpopulation.
Of course thats why they have all those problems. Not because of empires taking over countries, draining the countries of there natural resources then leaving and creating a vacuum of power which has led to civil unrest creating a poor unstable economy that results in a poor education system unable to properly educate people on safe sex. Of course that couldnt be the answer
 

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bak00777 said:
My university is made me read this book about some guy who built schools in the middle east, and they are making me go to these lecture/seminar things about third world countries and children my age that live there and their hardships etc. I just got back from one, and i feel like i wasted an hour and a half of my life. I honestly don't care. I care about me and the people directly around me, not someone i have never met halfway around the world. So i ask you fellow escapists, am i a total heartless douche for not caring?
No, it has no positive effect on you. Without firsthand experience with these schools how can you hope to sympathize? People on the other side of the world are just that.
 

Hashime

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technoted said:
The "University" and "Children my age" is the bit that confuses me.
In Canada at least you start university in your 18th year, if you have a late birthday like me you can still be a child.